If everyone is breaking some law, everyone is insecure.

Devs are reverse centaurs now.

Lines of code was never a good metric, but it looks like productivity to the C-suite. This will bite them (and everyone who uses the code) in the ass. After some spectacular fails it will be judgement that a Dev is most prized for, meanwhile, this.

Still, eight to ten productive hours a day in any sustained fashion is bullshit, more like 3-4 with a bunch of meetings, learning, deciphering etc. filling out the day.

Including the aforementioned time travel via stabilization of wormholes ala Morris–Thorne…

Seems pretty standard model still, more interesting behavior hiding in the indeterminance principle. Still, negative time hints at negative energy which could certainly change the game.

User manuals, I remember those, fondly. Unfortunately a pretty dead concept these days, but certainly a green flag if there is one, but absence is not a red flag.

A readthedocs.io entry is also a green flag (you can always download it for later offline…).

Nope, it’s still got RSS, but it’s flaky. Rss-bridge let’s you, for example, say give me the posts over 150 from the top day, It also pulls the jpg instead of a watered webp, at least for single images. I find it can let me keep the few niche things I care about down to a reasonable number consistently. The built in reddit RSS will shove 25 per day down your throat when you ask for the top 5 of the day.

I’d argue that most things that are currently in the crosshairs for exclusion under age verification are also harmful to at least a third of the adult population and to society in general.

Actually maybe that’s just for profit algorithm based social media and / or mass scale surveillance and personal information gathering and advertising.

The point being, if you’re going to make a case for something being harmful to kids, you need to also make a case for it’s being OK for adults or maybe it just needs banning outright for the good of society, see also smoking. Personally I’m in favor of leaving this in the hands of the individual and parents, and perhaps making easy tools for less technically adept parents to use.

TLDR: If Facebook is bad for kids, why isn’t it bad for adults?

If those failures are for reddit, the trick is to pretend you’re a Tor browser (it’s deep in the github issues), then it works fine again.

After thinking for a while the most egregious is Crazy Frog. Still, decades later…

Seems pretty plausible, not 3-2-1 yet, but on the way, and should get the habits established well enough. Just having an offline backup is a huge step up from most. Consider a waterproof box (perhaps buried) in the back yard instead of just another room (in case of fire / flood).

If you have a friend with a similar setup, or who perhaps wants one, you can sync over internet and both get your offsite without the expense of online backups or the inconvenience of lugging HDDs around.

Can we have this type of drama in the rest of the world instead of Boom Boom Fuck the world economy (even if in a luckily green way). Please

Good to hear, actually something worthwhile from FF (rust?) rather than AI crap. Hope it gets to Zen soon (and i can trust it as much as uBlock).

Yup, easy, mayhap not, but worthwhile things often aren’t.

seems like I wouldn’t be able to install Facebook I think

Bonus.

I’ve never heard about any privacy issues there, but, it’s worth keeping in mind

You would hear about it, and as someone happy there, it’s a recurring nightmare, but an actual credible threat would be worth so many dollars lost to them that there’s a low likelihood. Shit, Torvalds runs fedora, still, keep a weather eye open.

Mostly Linux has the virtue of the many eyes on open source protection, but it’s far from absolute, as the rise of supply chain exploits demonstrates.

Turns out it’s just 4.7 or whatever and all the hype is BS marketing. Still a threat (like any coding machine), but not god mode.

Yup, tracking mobiles from towers is a transmitter level vulnerability, pretty unavoidable (although gOS airplane mode and some other airplane modes actually works against this) if you’re using the network. Maybe open hardware at the modem level would give an option to spoof, but that doesn’t exist in the wild to my knowledge.

The article goes deeper into persistent international (state level threat operators, SLOs) tracking, and it’s actually somewhat reassuring in so much as they need to use SMS exploits to embed trackers (so gOS updating the image every week or so would likely bork it as described if a rootkit is not available). Paranoia suggests this is well below the actual capabilities of the SLOs but you do what you can. If there’s a significant threat to life or liberty, leave the phone at home. If your threat model also includes international usage (wherein these exploits exist), burner at each country.

Disclaimer : I am not an expert, just a rando interested in liberty.

A Priest, a Rabbi and a Minister walk into a bar.

Bartender says, that’s it, you guys are cut off.

To indulge the thought I think you could get a fair way using LLMs and vision models (for body language) by looking at the vector space differences between human languages (and idiomatic [e.g. two fingers in different cultures] and intrinsic [e.g. smiles] gestures), a large set of annotated animal vocalizations and gestures, plugging it into a really hot cup of tea and burning a small forest.

More seriously, I think Cetaceans would be a more tractable problem, and perhaps from there other animals. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was already underway, while LLMs aren’t good for a lot of things techbros want them to be good at, they are good at modelling languages.

I don’t have a good source, but my instinct is that ‘society at large’ in many (probably most) places is at least in majority ‘okay with human euthanasia’, and has been for quite a while. It’s the laws that need to catch up, but don’t due to lack of political will and a vocal minority.